My next stop was at Harsil, which is a small village some 25 kms down from the Gangotri, a very quite and laid back place, normally preferred by campers and people who look for some time away from the “madding crowds”. On the bus from Gangotri to Harsil,
my fellow passenger Bhargav narrated me the story of how the Gangotri temple was built by the Raja of Nepal in 1815, “before this temple, there was nothing in this region”.